Written by Akash Shriram
The Amazon-backed company said it was ready to cooperate with the military. However, there are no conditions.
We have also filed a related lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit challenging other legal powers invoked by the government.
The following discussion is based on claims made by Anthropic in its lawsuit.
What anthropology tells us about this conflict
The company says Claude has not been tested for these applications and cannot be used safely. It also said it has offered to help transfer operations to another provider if an agreement cannot be reached.
Pentagon officials have offered alternative explanations for how the conflict began. The department’s chief technology officer said publicly that tensions escalated after a US raid in Venezuela, when an Anthropic executive called a counterpart at Palantir to ask whether Claude had been used in the operation.
That account is not named in Anthropic’s complaint.
From ultimatums to total bans
In a social media post, the president characterized Anthropic as a “radical left-wing crazy company.”
